Albion to launch four new albums

Albion to launch four new albums

Aug 26, 2024 | News

Albion is releasing four new albums this Autumn. Two discs will be released on 11 October: Romance and Reverie (ALBCD065) by The Gustav Holst Society, with Albion Records, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Gustav Holst’s birth. Other composers represented are...
Composer Adrian Sutton releases new album

Composer Adrian Sutton releases new album

Aug 26, 2024 | News

“How long have I got to live? No idea.. but in my situation, I can’t waste time thinking about things I can’t change.. and I’ve never been so productive in my life. Seize the day,” says War Horse composer Adrian Sutton. In September 2022 the Olivier-awarded and...
SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

SPLENDID TEARS: Settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Aug 26, 2024 | CD reviews

Brian Thornsett tenorRichard Masters piano EMR Records CD087 Do you read poetry and if so, do you read Tennyson? He was extremely popular a few generations ago, but now? His most famous poems are Maud (1855) and In Memoriam (1850), an elegy on the death of his friend...
Errollyn Wallen appointed Master of the King’s Music

Errollyn Wallen appointed Master of the King’s Music

Aug 26, 2024 | News

Acclaimed composer and singer-songwriter Errollyn Wallen has been appointed Master of the King’s Music by King Charles. The Belize-born British musician was the first black woman to have a work featured in the Proms and she composed music for the London 2012...
GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works

GERARD SCHURMANN: Orchestral Works

Aug 26, 2024 | CD reviews

BBC PhilharmonicBen Gernon conductorXiayin Wang piano Chandos 20341 Gerard Schurmann was born in Java in January 1924, so in this, his centenary year, Chandos have brought out a disc of four fascinating works complementing their first Schurmann recording in 1980 (CHAN...